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Hi thanks that worked

Hi, When I was using Windows 7 on my sidebar I had an app called App launcher I could put an icon of all my programs and the program could be started with one click. Now I know Windows 8 does not have a sidebar but is there anything I could put on the desktop and launch programs with one click...

Hi lehnerus That's it brilliant thank you. Let me explain why I wanted this feature back, I have loads of audiobooks almost all are MP3 files some with chapters of various lengths, so only 2 or 3 minutes long and with a total book playing time of 15 or 16 hours long. I am building an index...

Hi guys Thanks for all the advice Norepli is correct i jusy want a "cumulative" total for the selected files and i see Phone Man had come up with the same answer thanks to both of you. This was easy in windows 7 it was just displayed at the bottom of the windows explorer screen, i wounder...

Hi topgundcp, jimb045, Phone Man, thanks for the advice I appreciate your advice but I have been able to show the length of the MP3 files by adding another column and that gets me the length of the Mp3 file as you point out. But it does not give me the total playing time of several Mp3,s files...

Hi guys thanks for the information Both ideas works and norepli that works ok its just a few more mouse clicks Thanks a lot

Hi guys can I please ask for a little advice please. I have just upgraded to Windows 8 Pro, and I have a small problem. When I was using windows 7 I was able to select a bunch of MP3 tracks In windows explorer and at the bottom windows displayed the total size of the selected tracks and the...

Hi thanks for the info guys Regards to you all

Hi HippsieGypsie Thank you for the welcome to this forum Well I have had to give in and let Java update it has beenasking me several times a day to let the update proceed and I have finally had enough and I’ve let it update just to get rid of the annoying message (Javaneeds to update) The reason...

Well let me expand a little when I say it closes the app what happens is the screen goes blank and it says Java wants to install a update, I don't know if the app closes fully but it goes off the screen

Hi guys since I installed windows 8 pro on my laptop I have been pestered with Java wanting to install a update. It closes whatever I have open and asks to install. How do I stop this annoying program Regards

Well just to let you all know I followed the link theog posted and used the disk clean up method and it works first time. Thanks guys

Hi 714 thanks for the info, i have a full image backup of the computer including the windowsold folder, I understand that it may contain some documents in C:\Windows.old\Users\username\My documents but in my case i had moved the default My Documents folder to another partition. So ive nothing...

Thank you I have had a look at the link and I will give it a try once I have made a backup. So it is safe to delete the folder

Hi I have just upgraded to windows 8 via the upgrade assistant I selected to keep my applications and settings all when well with the update and windows 8 is running fine. My question is if I look at my C: with windows explorer I can see a folder called windows old his folder is approx. 28Gb...